Unidentified Network Help!

Marty_uk

Marty_uk

Marty_uk

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Hi all

Ive spent the last 5 hours trying to resolve this problem,everything i googled doesnt seem to work so this is my last hope.
I have a internet conection located in my room which i use for xbox live and my Pc.
Today i play a few hours of gears of war 2 with a friend from work and then decided to take a break and go back on my pc,so i unplugged the xbox ethernet cable from my modem and plugged back the pc ethernet,now usualy id get my connection straight away but this time i got a Unidentified Network message with an ip that starts with 169
Ive tried unplugging the modem for 10 mins,tried unchecking the ivp 6 (think thats what its called)
Tried doing a system restore and that didnt work either,spent 40 mins on the phone to virgin media and yeah they were totaly useless
Tried uninstalling the network adapters and yup that didnt work either.
Im losing all hope of what to do next and im losing valuble time for my studies ARGH
If it helps i brought my system from OCuk (Ultima Intel quadcore)
Or perhaps i should give Ocuk a call in the morning and see what happens
 
Can you tell what IP address the Xbox connects on?

I am guessing this is somehow an IP address problem. The Xbox is "setting" a given IP address on your Virgin connection, and now the computer can't use that IP address. This is a total guess and it's late ...

Rgds
 
You can access the virgin modem via a specific ip address I think using a browser. I'm not sure, but there might be a release/renew ip address option for the modem? Can anyone else clarify?
 
Thats the default, I don't have a static IP and can't get one via DHCP, IP address.

I know in the days of NTL you had to switch you modem off for a few hours before connecting another device to the modem.

Not sure if Virgin is the same, Although I would expect the support line to know that as well.
 
If you swap the cable directly from a VM modem then you normally have to reboot the modem as it wont get a new DHCP address if it sees a different MAC address.

It's odd that you could swap the cables about and get a new address immediately.
 
ive noticedin the network managing that if i change it to a private network it recognises multipule network,but then it changes itself back to public and goes back to unidentified network grrrrr this is so anoying
 
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